Re: /etc/profile.d/lilypond.sh is a bad idea

2004-02-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Just a warning: Note that this solutions requires more active support of the packaging rules. This has been a problem with the Debian package, where the package maintainer has not had the time to follow the quick development of LilyPond so the installation has not always been complete. /Mats Reu

Re: /etc/profile.d/lilypond.sh is a bad idea

2004-02-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
> I would advise mimicking the debian approach, installing under TEXMF > using symlinks, see debian/rules. Even better yet, have make install > do this if it finds tetex, and move it out of specific distribution > scripts. That sounds good. -- http://www.mupsych.org/~rrt/ | art, n. romanticize

Re: /etc/profile.d/lilypond.sh is a bad idea

2004-02-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
> I welcome all proposals for better solutions, Doing what Jan suggested, at least in the RPM, seems to be a good way of sorting things out, at least for RPM-ed systems. After all, it's reasonable to have only one version of lilypond installed as an RPM. If people want multiple versions installed

Re: /etc/profile.d/lilypond.sh is a bad idea

2004-02-23 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Reuben Thomas wrote: Yes, and separate scripts for xdvi, dvips, kdvi, gdvi, texi2dvi? I don't think that this is a good approach. Need it be scripts? Can't you just make a system call with the TEXMF shell variable prepended, i.e. TEXMF=blah The problem is not the calls from within the lilypon

Re: /etc/profile.d/lilypond.sh is a bad idea

2004-02-23 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: >> Perhaps best of all would simply be to install your stuff in TEXMF_LOCAL >> (if it exists) and otherwise TEXMF. I'm happy to help with getting this >> working if you think it's a good idea. While I agree that the lilypond.sh (in fact Red Hat's profile.d) is a bad idea,

Re: /etc/profile.d/lilypond.sh is a bad idea

2004-02-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
> Yes, and separate scripts for xdvi, dvips, kdvi, gdvi, texi2dvi? I > don't think that this is a good approach. Need it be scripts? Can't you just make a system call with the TEXMF shell variable prepended, i.e. TEXMF=blah > We explicitly put the version number in, to prevent lilypond from >

/etc/profile.d/lilypond.sh is a bad idea

2004-02-23 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I just ran into trouble, because I upgraded my tetex installation in the > middle of a session, and the new installation had different paths. Since > TEXMF was set as an environment variable by lilypond, when I tried to run > latex afterwards it didn't have the right pa

/etc/profile.d/lilypond.sh is a bad idea

2004-02-21 Thread Reuben Thomas
I just ran into trouble, because I upgraded my tetex installation in the middle of a session, and the new installation had different paths. Since TEXMF was set as an environment variable by lilypond, when I tried to run latex afterwards it didn't have the right paths. I suggest that lilypond shou